My Favorite Time of the Year

After a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at the Halverson's (that I didn't have to cook-even better!), we headed home to get a little Christmas going in our house just in case baby sister should come early. I already make people nervous walking around stores now, I guess they think I might pop, so we figured sooner is probably better than later to get the decorations out. We decided to downgrade this year and just put out a few things, but as anyone who knows me can tell you, a few Christmas things so easily turns into a few plus a few more. What can I say, I love this time of year and celebrating "baby Jesus". This year, having an actual baby to look forward to has given us an new perspective on the nativity.


So off we went to get the tree...It started with the manly job of untying to get a better look.

Bryce really wanted to get this tree for baby sister. He is such a sweet boy.

The huge one we finally picked. I look like I am nervously checking to make sure Andrew's not going to drop it on me,  but really I was just checking to see if Bryce was smiling.










Very excited boy to ride home with the tree next to him!

Evening her out (another manly job, so mommy is sitting and watching).








Here he's saying Christmas tree in a very excited voice, but it looks like jazz hands. Just wanted to show the size of it, since I'm pretty sure it's the biggest we've ever had.

Bryce's ornament for this year got unwrapped and put on the tree, then taken off the tree and zoomed around, then glued, and back on the tree a little higher up :0)

(It's Tow Mater in a Christmas hat for those of you unfamiliar with the great love of Cars that is found in 2 year old boys)